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Work:
Yesterday we had a kick-off meating for the technical side
of the project I'm working half-time on the next few month.
(The other half time is just ordinary maintaince work). We
have to make some fundemental changes in the document model
for our Content Manager.

An 8 hour meeeting is a lot tougher than normal work.
It's posible to kind of relax when you are checking
log-files and to some extend also when coding.

Life:
Last day of the week and then I have 4 days off work. I
won't even touch my own computer. I'm going on a trip with
the scouts and it seems we on't even need to bring a tent.
But we better have a tent, otherwise it would start to rain.

Been looking at Subversion. Looks like a
very interesting project. I have yet to see it compile on my
Debian box, but I'm working on it. (I know subversion isn't
in a releaseable state, but I just have to play with it)

The first problem (other than making sure I got all the
needed development packages) is that Debians BerkeleyDB
version 3 should be linked with -ldb3 and not
-ldb. With some hacking in ./configure I
got it configured and could start the make process. Which failed
still with linking problems with BerkeleyDB.

I thought this was the kind of problems autoconf was
meant to solve without to much hacking for the programmer.

I know I shouldn't be hacking directly in ./configure.
But I have absolutly no knowledge about the inner workings
of autoconf. But now I know what the problems was I will try
to solve it the right way.

I must convince someone in SSLUG to give a talk about
auto{conf,make,...}.

Sriram Srinivasan, Advanced Perl Programming. Great book.
Many great hint I should have thought of myself. And chapter
20 on Perl Internals was quite informative.

Steven Holzner, Inside XML. Actually I'm rather
disapointed. 1050 pages and the most interesting was the
last 50 pages consisting of the XML 1.0 specifications. To
much repetition and endless tables of attributes for XHTML
tags and the alike.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan King of Apes. Well, we all
know the story but it is nice to have read the real story.
Not to bad but more as a picture of Burroughs and his time
but not Africa and human evolution.